Microscopy

The University of Queensland offers a wide range of microscopy equipment and analytical instrumentation. Find out what equipment is available from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Centre for Advanced Light Microscopy, Queensland Brain Institute, UQ Diamantina Institute and School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences.

Cancer Biology Imaging Facility - Institute for Molecular Bioscience

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Australian Cancer Research Foundation's (ACRF) Cancer Biology Imaging Facility has imaging facilities and screening of chemical and biological libraries. Capabilities of the facility include laser scanning and spinning disc confocal microscopy, deconvolution, high-throughput multi-wall imaging, and 3D optical projection tomography (OPT). It is home to 23 high-performance microscopes and supporting image data analysis workstations, with facility staff on-site to provide users with expert technical support and training.

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Microscopy - UQ Diamantina Institute

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The TRI offers outstanding microscopy facilities and staff. We are available to assist with equipment selection, training, inductions, operation, optimisation and advice on how to get the best images from your samples, as well as subsequent image analysis.

Equipment

The following equipment is available to UQ users as part of the 'Core Facilities at TRI':

Zeiss LSM 510 Meta Confocal

Zeiss Live Cell Imager

LaVision Biotec Multiphoton microscope

Nikon Brightfield microscope with camera

Olympus FV 1200 confocal*

Nikon/Spectral Spinning disc confocal microscope*

GE Healthcare 3D-SIM OMX Braze super resolution microscope*

Olympus excellence live cell imaging system*

Epifluorescent inverted microscopes (X4)

Olympus Slide Scanner Brightfield*

Olympus BX63F motorized upright fluorescence microscope*

IX73 inverted fluorescence microscopes

Olympus VS120 Brightfield slide scanner

(* TRI owned)

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Optical microscopy - School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

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A research technique in optical microscopy that relies on excitation of fluorescent molecules with a specific wavelength region to produce an image generated by the secondary fluorescence emission at longer wavelengths. Modern fluorescence microscopes are equipped with reflected light illuminators that incorporate neutral density filters and a specialized combination of interference filters to segregate incident illumination from the detected fluorescence emission. Confocal laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy can be used to determine the localisation of molecules eg protein or mRNA in live or fixed cells and tissues. This means one can follow transport of protein- or RNA-containing granules in cells.